From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:59:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83r3ye8umq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4so9jjy.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbns9d5j.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnpjaipi.fsf@gnu.org> <83a953aebr.fsf@gnu.org> <83wq868zb4.fsf@gnu.org> <87eguefyxh.fsf@arcor.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413043235 11248 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 16:00:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:00:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 18:00:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcz5o-0003Fc-8N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:00:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54481 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcz5n-0000jc-Pg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:00:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46373) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcz5L-0000bd-QF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcz5G-0001D1-Ho for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:59:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:55473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcz5G-0001Ct-AF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NDA00J00ES72P00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:58:18 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NDA00H2BF16NP20@mtaout28.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:58:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87eguefyxh.fsf@arcor.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100416 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:44:58 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> From: Stefan Monnier > >> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 09:26:15 -0400 > >> > >> >> How is that going to tell you when a bugfix release has been released? > >> > You watch the site where you downloaded the previous one from. > >> > >> Right, and of course that's a different site for each package. To me > >> that reads "nightmare" ;-) > > > > That's an exaggeration: there are maybe 2 or sites to watch. > > Depends on what you have installed. I'd have to watch: > > - ezwinports, obviously. :-) > > - Emacs - depends on who is currently providing a binary, switches > pretty much every year. > > - MinGW/MSys > > - GNUWin32 > > - MSYSGit > > - GnuPG > > - Mercurial > > - Python, Ruby: respective homepages > > - GNU Global > > - Exuberant Ctags > > - Windows-only-but-free stuff like Clink, ConEmu, Putty/Plink > > That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more. Obviously, I > don't check all those regularly, only when I see the need, but that's > not a good solution. First, even the above is not a large list. Second, I think you exaggerate a little bit (e.g., GnuWin32 didn't see any new versions since 2010, so no need to watch them anymore. MinGW/MSYS and PuTTY are likewise very seldomly updated. So the problem is not as hard as Stefan might think.